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What are some scientific discoveries of the last 20 years that aren’t getting enough attention?
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A few of my own examples, _not_ drawn from things I work on: I remain very excited about topological matter, new phases of matter, and programmable matter, for reasons I explain here: http://cognitivemedium.com/vme pic.twitter.com/51Cdrgr00p
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Work on causal inference has received much attention over the past 20 years, but it's still very underrated. In a thousand years it will look like the revolution in probability & statistics in the first half of the twentieth century. My short survey: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-imply-causation-then-what-does/ …
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(Note: I very much doubt the theory has reached a mature form. In that sense, it's also like probability and statistics in the early part of the 20th century.)
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There's a freaking slug that PHOTOSYNTHESIZES. It doesn't need to eat for months! https://www.livescience.com/6030-surprising-sea-slug-plant-animal.html … https://www.sciencealert.com/this-sea-slug-feeds-on-sunlight-using-photosynthesisImagine … Figuring it how it did this could revolutionize gene therapy. And imagine if we could make it work in mammals! Maybe we wouldn't need to eat???
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That's pretty great. Would give new meaning to "I'm going out to bask in the sun for a bit!"
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The importance of our gut microbiome, but this is still an exciting work in progress.
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I'd say the science of human origins seems... weirdly soft-pedaled. Out of Africa: if you asked the average student in high school or college, summarize our best (non-fringe) understanding today, it wouldn't come close to the wiki page, a low bar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans …
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Thanks, nice example!
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